[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:11, skribe wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:16, Brock Woolf wrote:
> 
> > 1. (What I did) Buy an Apple iBook/iMac. The hardware is really fast and
> > linux runs on the PPC RISC architecture.
> 
> Is there a logical reason why any sane person would choose to do this?  What I 
> mean by that is fork out the fat wad of cash for Apple's hardware and then 
> ditch its OS to run linux.  I mean, I like linux but it's not really worth 
> buying hardware at double the price unless you're a serious gearhead - and we 
> all know that serious gearheads are on the wrong side of the sanity line (and 
> more power to them).  I guess what I'm asking is there any benefit, other 
> than bragging rights and a warm feeling of satisfaction, from running linux 
> on Apple hardware?
> 
> skribe

It would be more stable, more geeky, immune to Windows installation and
"less" of a thief magnet?

regards,

Chris